Ogre on IBM Lotus Notes 8

okki · Post by **okki** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:30 pm

IBM Lotus Notes 8 (Hannover) is based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform.
So what to do with Eclipse and Java? Yes: release an Ogre4j plugin

See the results on YouTube

skullfire · Post by **skullfire** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:50 am

oh my god....

This is an amazing demonstration of Ogre used as a plugin... but I have to ask... why would I use Ogre with lotus notes?

nikki · Post by **nikki** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:15 am

skullfire wrote:why would I use Ogre with lotus notes?

Maybe to preview attached AutoCAD files or something like that.

okki · Post by **okki** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:32 am

Lotus is quite good in defining workflows. Some possible Use-Cases:
- PDM (ProductDataManagement) Integration
- Collaboration (SameTime Services) and approval processes
- an "AutoCAD"/whatever Fileviewer
- ....

Post your ideas!

Azatoth · Post by **Azatoth** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:01 am

That is soo cool!

Eclipse has a great foundation for pretty much all authoring work, and if I get time I would want to integrate my client with it. Currently I'm adding authoring functionality in-client, using CEGUI, which takes time since a lot of the widgets and editing functionality that's needed needs to be created by hand. It would be great to embed it in Eclipse, using the Eclipse framwork for all authoring and keeping CEGUI for the players.
The Eclipse plugin page on your site gives me an access denied error.

okki · Post by **okki** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:13 am

Azatoth wrote:The Eclipse plugin page on your site gives me an access denied error.

Oops... fixed: now it states "Coming soon"

Please wait for the upcoming master thesis one of us has written about ogre4eclipse.

Post by **sinbad** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:23 am

Heh, that's really cool. Nice work!

mklann · Post by **mklann** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:05 pm

great, very happy to see an eclipse-plugin coming up...

any idea when you are going to release this?

sorry, maybe I somehow missed it, but where is the web-site where you put ogre4eclipse or the "coming soon" comment, respectively?

Thanks!

Game_Ender · Post by **Game_Ender** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:45 pm

This means the Ogre4J is getting much further along? Or is only a small portion of the Ogre API wrapped to accomplish this?

okki · Post by **okki** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:51 pm

Some time ago we started a light JNI wrapper for Ogre but stuck there with version 1.0.6. The old libraries are still available at http://www.ogre4j.org.

With release 1.0.7 we started to switch to some kind of auto-generation of the JNI bindings using Doxygen and XSLT and after recognising that this idea could be of interest to anyone who tries to wrap C++ classes into Java we started xbig.sf.net. While we're still focusing internally on Ogre we hope to support any C++ API out there (in the near future

).

You can take a look at the active process on the Subversion repository of XBig. When we're able to compile the Ogre sources with the JNI support we'll update the Ogre4j API again.

Game_Ender wrote:This means the Ogre4J is getting much further along? Or is only a small portion of the Ogre API wrapped to accomplish this?

It's already based on Ogre 1.2 compiled with the XSLT Stylesheets. But: we had to deactivate some of the more complex classes in the configuration. There are still three test cases open that Ogre relies on. Nevertheless it's already quite mature!

nihilocrat · Post by **nihilocrat** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:32 pm

Lotus Notes is the emacs of email/groupware clients.

That's really cool, though.